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Let our enriching hypocrisy quotes and sayings remove our double faces within and help sharply see the world for what it is.
Cristopher Hitchens has a powerful quote on hypocrisy, ‘you don’t say they all do it unless you know you have been doing it too.’
Hypocrisy is not only in the religious places, in the political domain, nor found in the name of democracy and secularism.
It erupts from each individual’s irreligious mind and cunning hearts. Otherwise, how would we conclude that the other is a hypocrite?
There are specific criteria and self notions we have assumed on what it is to be a hypocrite. The chances are that we have already had all those qualities suppressed within us in the backdoor of morality and decency.
There are no fundamental differences between how our minds operate and how the world systems function.
We can uproot and dismantle fakeness and hypocrisy in the world only when we turn inwards and look at our double standards deeply.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s hypocrisy quote makes one question our pre-conceived notions even further.
The quote says,’ it is not fair to ask others what you are not willing to do yourself.’.
We hope our inspiring hypocrisy quotes and sayings push us to live a righteous and good conscience life before finding fault on the outside.
Best Hypocrisy Quotes and Sayings
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.
– Leo Tolstoy
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
– Logan Pearsall Smith
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one’s self.
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It’s gotten to the point that our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
– Andrew Niccol
But everybody agrees, somewhere in his heart, that there ought to be some connection between what you believe and how you behave, what you advocate for others and how you live yourself.
– Christopher Hitchens
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too.
– Christopher Hitchens
Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often themselves quite mistaken as to what their motives are.
– C.S. Lewis
Woe to you. scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
– The Bible (Matthew 23:27)
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
– George Orwell
A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
– Marie Corelli
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
– George Orwell
The first man was a hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built.
– Mark Twain
An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is worse.
– Benjamin Franklin
Be true to yourself.
– Unknown
Beware of the person with two faces.
– Dutch Proverb
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
– Aesop
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is often easier to fight for your principles than to live up to them.
– Adlai Stevenson
Many have quarreled about religion that never practised it.
– Benjamin Franklin
Rudeness is a weak man’s imitation of strength.
– Eric Hoffer
The mouth prays to Buddha but the heart is full of evil.
– Vietnamese Proverb
The hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
– Hannah Arendt
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue — is hypocrisy.
– Lord Byron
If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one?
– Abraham Lincoln
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
– Oscar Wilde
I call it not humility, so long as we think there is any good remaining in us. Those who have joined together two things, to think humbly of ourselves before God and yet hold our own righteousness in some estimation, have a pernicious hypocrisy.
– John Calvin
There is nothing which God more abominates than when men endeavor to cloak themselves by submitting signs and external appearance for integrity of heart.
– John Calvin
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
– John Calvin
If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
– Charlie Parker
Along with much bad thinking, goes split living.
– J.I. Packer
Many a man who tries to talk as if he were standing on a mountain shows by what he says that he is up to his eyes in the mud.
– Billy Sunday
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.
– Georges Bernanos
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-in solid cash — the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
– Aldous Huxley
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur. which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy; and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
– Jean De La Bruyere
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
– William Hazlitt
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents’ first duty.
– George Bernard Shaw
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
– George Meredith
Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
– Geoffrey B. Wilson
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho‘ the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
– Laurence Sterne
What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically. and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
– Bernard Crick
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
– Fanny Brice
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required — acting as though we do not see through the motives of their actions.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
– Leo Tolstoy
If any teacher tries to persuade you that hypocrisy is not a part of your blood and bone and flesh, and can therefore be trained out of you by determined and watchful and ceaseless and diligent application to the job, do not you heed him; ask him to cure himself first, then call again.
– Mark Twain
The human qualities can be expressed in one word: hypocrisy.
– Joe
Ooh, hypocrisy, Franklin. Civilization’s greatest virtue.
– Michael De Santa
I studied at Oxford and Harvard. Majored in Western hypocrisy.
– Colonel Moon
You can, Love the church for their good works, or you can hate the church for their – Hypocrisy.
– Robert Goren
Hypocrisy is a boil. Lancing a boil is never pleasant. Although they could have been more careful with the blade.
– High Sparrow
Oh, Thomas. I see now what it takes for a man to make his way in this world. He must make a practice of hypocrisy.
– John Lambert
Do you think I’m a hypocrite? Well, you should. I wouldn’t disagree with you. The road to power is paved with hypocrisy. And casualties. Never regret.
– Francis Underwood
Let’s be philosophical. People have lived like hypocrites since the dawn of time. That’s what you call ‘civilisation.’
– Francois Vasseur
Well, you can’t really admit to being a hypocrite because well, then you’re not a hypocrite.
– Gordo
Rather a scoundrel than a hypocrite.
– Jack Vincent
You are thieves, killers, adulterers, blasphemers and liars six days a week! And on the seventh day you are hypocrites.
– Florence
The things I hate most, are the things that resemble my own faults. I hate bad manners. I hate people that don’t give common courtesy. Hypocrites and cowards. That’s all we are.
– Richie
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